Images: Cleaning up the mess from weekend flooding
Donner, right, and his son Thomas, continue to clean up from the damage to their home in Mount Prospect. Flood waters in their basement reached the ceiling.
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Donner contemplates the flood damage which has completely gutted his basement.
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Mike Donner stands in his basement family room looking at a light fixture that actually caught fire when the couch floated up to the ceiling and broke it.
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Donner shows where the water filled his basement to the ceiling.
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Donner shows one of the window wells that got blown out by the water rushing into Mike DonnerÂ’s basement.
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Donner points to where the street and sidewalk became a raging river that flowed through his window wells and into the basement during the storm Sunday morning.
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Mike Donner of Mount Prospect stands in the ruins of his basement.
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Flood damage debris piles up in front of a home on Rammer Avenue in Mount Prospect.
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Rain water flooded the street along S. Phelps Avenue in Arlington Heights on Saturday.
COURTESY OF MONICA DONNER
Rain water flooded the street along S. Phelps Avenue in Arlington Heights on Saturday.
COURTESY OF MONICA DONNER
Rain water flooded the street along S. Phelps Avenue in Arlington Heights on Saturday.
COURTESY OF MONICA DONNER
Rain water flooded the street along S. Phelps Avenue in Arlington Heights on Saturday.
COURTESY OF MONICA DONNER